On Sun December 4 2005 6:35 am, Dale wrote: > Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > Personally I stick to -O2 since -O3 usually won't do much in reality. > > -O3 takes longer to compile, and there is very little or no gain at > > all (and sometimes the gain is negative). > > > > If space is the most important issue you might want to compile for > > smallest possible binary, e.g. -Os > > > > -Kristian Poul Herkild > > Thanks, I may try that -Os on my rig with the tiny drive. I'm pruning > it right now. It's so full it can't compile. LOL -O2 huh. May give > that a shot too. I've got a emerge -e world with the gcc update so . . > . . . > > Dale
Have you deleted the content in /var/tmp/portage (not the directory itself)? That can get huge very quickly, and is only needed if you're troubleshooting failed emerges. It's where emerge does it's job with compile-time work files. A failed emerge of a large package can leave a file of hundreds of mb, and several of those quickly can reach GB's of wasted disk space. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
